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Steam CMD, settings and mods


volos30

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I found out after a year of not playing PZ that the server setup has changed drastically but I figured it out after finding this link and after hours of wasting time online and on forums.

 

http://steamcommunity.com/app/108600/discussions/0/517142892048933346

 

http://steamcommunity.com/app/108600/discussions/0/517142892048933346/

 

(wrote it twice in case the blue link thingy didn't work)

 

 

 

It's pretty easy setup and it explains how to setup non-Steam and Linux also. Just read and follow it word for word.

 

But, since this creates a new pzserver folder and another folder that's called ProjectZomboidDedicated folder in your steamapps\common\ directory, I don't know where the server settings are. There is or was and or still is a Zomboid folder in your C:\users directory which has server files and folders which were used(I think) for the old PZ builds but now there's more folders in different places that all seem to be used for PZ servers or the setting up of it but I don't know which I'm supposed to use for the server settings in order to setup the server in terms of how the zombies and the world behaves in-game and how and where to incorporate the many mods, that have been painstakingly made by players, into the server.

 

So, if the devs or anyone who has figured it out, we, the players, need...

 

PZ server settings

A dummies guide for modding PZ servers

 

with detailed explanations please cause we don't all have astrophysics degrees in computer-java code-academy language.

 

Thanks in advance cause this game is made for multi-friend server type people(like Minecraft used to be) so this will help out a ton of frustrated people out there. 

 

PS All this constant changing of things is going to kill a fine game.

 

 

 

 

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I believe the settings are still located:

 

C:>Users>(Your User Name)>Zomboid>Server>servertest(or whatever the name of your server is).

 

Its hard to make much sense of the wall of text in server_zombies (zombie configuration). I made one that is easier to read here that you can use:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/l0auy4tyidq6lw6/servertest_zombies.ini?dl=0

 

The world settings are located (I think):

 

C:>Steam>steamapps>common>ProjectZomboid Dedicated Server>PZServerSettings>SandboxSettings

(definitely confusing since there are two other files called PZServerSettings)

 

The options with "true" next to them are active.

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anyone else? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

 

don't be shy guys.

 

if the devs have made a page where they explain stuff someone link it here cause they just post what's new or what bugs got fixed but everything else gets F'd up. they post things like;

 

fixed bug where guy farts when he reads

fixed man going through wall

bags can no longer carry items

bags can no longer be carried on back

fixed texture 23042349 on jpeg 190 on item #24234

bears no longer appear in town

pixels won't spontaneously combust anymore

 

you know stuff like that.

instead they need to have a page(someone link it if it exists and put my foot in my mouth) where it says fixed this and here is how to mod and setup servers.

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Hey guys,

 

I was gonna post something about mods that someone else had posted but that didn't seem to work, but......

CaptainKaspar is right and the old way of doing the server settings still works and that's located in your steam folder......

 

steam/steamapps/common/ProjectZomboid

 

and in that folder theres an application called PZServerSettings and it has a little icon of three scratches or something(guess it's a zombie scratch) and you double click on that application and you'll get a little window and it has all of the settings to change weather, zombies, item weapon and food adundance and other things like server time and weather and all those things and it works cause I tested it a couple of times with slow shamblers and fast sprinters and also with loot adundance and it seems to work.

 

Thanks CaptKaspar!

 

I read the main post in the multiplayer section written by the devs(I think) and it shows all this java jargon and I guess that makes it sound all techy and stuff but this way is easier to set settings.

 

But......we're still missing how to add MODS to the server. I tried several different ways from several different people and what they posted but nothing seemed to work and it would just crash the server cmd prompt that comes up. It would scroll through all the mods and say that they failed to load or that they need downloading and it would just crash. Once I deleted all the stuff that I had done from the other post suggestions the server worked again.

 

So we're still needing someone to show us how to include those MODS that people put so much effort into so we can enjoy them all. Cause I'd rather be using a mod that gives me an small arsenal of guns and other equipment than just a pistol, a shotgun and now a rifle that I can't find yet I guess.

 

You don't think the devs don't want MODS in the game do you? hmmmmm, makes them look bad doesn't it? that regular people can make a mod to better the game and the devs can't.........(scratches head)

 

I figured the game would be bulging with items and weapons and stuff and other things after a year of not playing and I was surprised that only a few MODS can include so much.......

 

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

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